mobile

1.

/ˈmoʊbəl/

moving or capable of moving readily

Other forms: mobiles

When something is mobile it can move or be moved easily. If you walk to the end of the block talking on your cell phone, you are a mobile being using a mobile device.

A mobile is something you hang over a crib to entertain the baby, or a scale model of the universe. In 1940, the word mobile was first used to refer to a house that could be easily moved — a mobile home. If someone says to you jokingly that they "are not mobile," it means that their car is not working. It will be hard for them to be upwardly mobile, or to improve their social status, if they don't get mobile and get to work soon!

Definitions of mobile (/ˈmoʊbəl/)

1. adjective

   moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place)
   “a mobile missile system”

   “the tongue is...the most mobile articulator”

   synonyms:

   airborne

   moved or conveyed by or through air

   ambulant, ambulatory

   able to walk about

   floating

   inclined to move or be moved about

   maneuverable, manoeuvrable

   capable of maneuvering or changing position

   mechanised, mechanized, motorized

   using vehicles

   motile

   (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement

   movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable

   capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another

   perambulating

   strolling or walking around

   racy

   designed or suitable for competing in a race

   raisable, raiseable

   capable of being raised

   rangy

   adapted to wandering or roaming

   rotatable

   capable of being rotated

   seaborne

   conveyed by sea

   transplantable

   capable of being transplanted

   versatile

   able to move freely in all directions

   waterborne

   transported by water

   moving

   in motion

   antonyms:

   immobile

   not capable of movement or of being moved

   immovable, immoveable, stabile, unmovable

   not able or intended to be moved

   immotile, nonmotile

   (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement

   stiff

   not moving or operating freely

   nonmoving, unmoving

   not in motion
2. adjective

   capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another
   “a highly mobile face”

   synonyms:

   changeable, changeful

   such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
3. adjective

   affording change (especially in social status)
   “upwardly mobile”

   synonyms: fluid

   changeable, changeful

   such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
4. adjective

   relating to persons or groups who travel in search of food or work; migratory
   “a restless mobile society”

   synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering

   unsettled

   not settled or established
5. adjective

   having transportation available
   synonyms:

   moving

   in motion